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As Oklahoma lawmakers head in to the 2024 regular legislative session, ... The legislative push to reform Oklahoma’s criminal code accelerated after voters in 2020 rejected State Question 805, ...
Criminal justice reform efforts continue at the Oklahoma state Capitol, but some believe the movement has gone too far. Oklahoma's criminal justice reform push remains, but politics complicates ...
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[7] [8] Oklahoma has been called the "Cockfighting Capitol of the United States." [9] In 2023, Humphrey introduced HB 2530, [10] to allow county-specific elections to reduce from felonies to misdemeanors the criminal penalties related to cockfighting. He argued the bill as a criminal justice reform measure.
The bill was criticized by Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Executive Director Damion Shade. [56] This is a SQ 780 rollback that would increase incarceration and essentially set the bar back to where the voters raised it in 2016." A representative of the organization Oklahoma Appleseed called it one of their "Bad Bills." [57]
The Fifty-eighth Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from January 3, 2021, to January 3, 2023, during the second two years of the first administration of Governor Kevin Stitt .
The Oklahoma Senate passed two pieces of legislation, introduced by Sen. Julie Daniels, to protect businesses from crime and target repeat offenders. Sen. Daniels champions bills to curb rising ...
Beginning with the adoption of State Question 780 by Oklahoma voters in 2016, advocates for criminal justice reform sought additional measures. SQ780, which changed the classification of simple drug possession crimes from felony to misdemeanor and increased the cap for property crimes to be considered felonies, had already reduced the rate of ...